Daily Devotional Meditations and a Biblical Perspective on Current Events

Proverbs 26:23-26 – Go ahead and stick out your tongue!

Today’s proverbs address a malady of all men—the tongue! Isn’t it interesting that a doctor will, during a routine physical examine, ask you to stick out your tongue and examine it to gather data regarding your physical health? The simple methods a physician employs to determine our physical well-being fascinates me.

As a man’s tongue is an indicator of his physical health, the same is true of his spiritual condition! Listen to and examine what a man says [and does not say] long enough and you will soon know what manner of man he is. Ponder that thought as you read Proverbs 26:23-26.

Silver coating a simple clay pot may dress it up and give it an appearance of great value; however, the silver merely disguises the reality it is nothing more than a cheap earthenware pot. So it is with a man whose words might glow and inspire; however, are nothing more than a window dressing, a masquerade concealing a wicked heart! That sinful man’s heart is laid bare in the following proverbs.

There are men in our homes, churches, community, and nation whose lips stir up trouble, dissension and division (26:24). They divide friendships, destroy fellowships and go unimpeded in their wicked ways because too many of us are drawn away by their “fair” and flattering words (26:25).

Friend, some reading today’s devotional have played the fool and followed men with silver tongues that concealed malicious hearts. You left behind friendships and fellowships to follow a man whose sin will inevitably be exposed “before the whole congregation” (26:26).

My question for you: Do you have the character to make right your wrong? Sadly, most do not!